A day could feel like passing seconds when immersed in the flow of meaningful work, yet a second could sometimes stretch into eons when faced with the prospect of imminent annihilation.
When confronted with an utterly terrifying force that existed beyond all normal categories of power, surviving a single minute seemed not merely difficult but fundamentally impossible, as if Existence itself had decreed that certain thresholds should never be crossed by lesser beings!
The aura of the Early Creature swept outward like a tide of compressed authority, carrying with it the weight of existence itself distilled into pure presence.
In the next moment, Noah felt his entire being freeze as comprehension dawned with horrifying clarity! From above, descending through the Early Sacred Waters with inexorable purpose, came what appeared to be a spear.
But as the object drew closer, its true nature became apparent.
